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title: "BSDAgile - Team System Project Template for Extreme Programming"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/8/bsdagile-team-system-project-template-for-extreme-programmin.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/8/bsdagile-team-system-project-template-for-extreme-programmin.html"
published: "2006-12-08T17:55:44"
updated: "2006-12-08T17:55:44"
tags: ["Team System", "Unit Testing"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Now, how come I didn't notice this one before? BSDAgile - BSDAgile is a Methodology Template for Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). It is intended to provide an ultra-lightweight process for people building software in…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# BSDAgile - Team System Project Template for Extreme Programming

By Roy Osherove December 8, 2006 In [Team System](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-system), [Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/unit-testing)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 8, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

Now, how come I didn't notice this one before?

[BSDAgile](http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/bsdagile) - BSDAgile is a Methodology Template for Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). It is intended to provide an ultra-lightweight process for people building software in small teams using VSTS. It promotes the idea of starting with a very simple process and then adding complexity as it’s needed. People who are doing Extreme Programming may find this a better starting point than MSF Agile.

What's important to note here is the list of the members on this project. I recognize at least two of them as leaders in the Agile field which I highly respect:

- [Jim Newkirk](http://blogs.msdn.com/jamesnewkirk/default.aspx)

Jim is one of the original authors of NUnit, and works at Microsoft's _~P&P~_ [CodePlex](http://www.codeplex.com/) team these days.

- [Randy Miller](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2005/07/28/420919.aspx)

This is one the folks behind the MSF (Microsoft Solutions Framework) Ethnology and MSF Agile In particular, which is one of the "out of the box" methodologies in VSTS. I did a very interesting interview with Randy a while back, which you can still listen to. [See here for details](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2005/07/28/420919.aspx).

## More in Team System

[All posts in Team System](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-system)

- Dec 10, 2006

    ### [Macro - Workaround for VS 2005 unit testing build problem](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/10/macro-workaround-for-vs-2005-unit-testing-build-problem.html)

- Dec 9, 2006

    ### [Video: Implementing Continuous Integration: With and Without Team System](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/9/video-implementing-continuous-integration-with-and-without-t.html)

- Dec 4, 2006

    ### [Hello DataDude! Team System for Database Professionals is RTM](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/4/hello-datadude-team-system-for-database-professionals-is-rtm.html)

- Nov 27, 2006

    ### [TFS Permission Manager Tool](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/11/27/tfs-permission-manager-tool.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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